Healthy but mortal : human biology and the first farmers of western Europe /
What do we know about the effects of the transition to agriculture on human biology? A literature has grown up that gives us the impression that we know a great deal about what happened to bones and teeth when people became sedentary farmers. A review of the sources of these ideas and the evidence s...
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| Formato: | Analitica de revista |
| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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| Sumario: | What do we know about the effects of the transition to agriculture on human biology? A literature has grown up that gives us the impression that we know a great deal about what happened to bones and teeth when people became sedentary farmers. A review of the sources of these ideas and the evidence supporting them, especially based on work in Portugal, reveals that a reconsideration of the biological consequences of farming in Europe is overdue. |
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| Notas: | Antiquity 71 (1999): 639-658 |